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How does Active IQ Unified Manager detect ransomware on ONTAP and trigger event "Ransomware activities detected"?

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  • Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
  • ONTAP 9

Answer

  • AIQUM event Ransomware activities detected is NOT based on cluster configuration data collected from ONTAP every 15 minutes
  • Ransomware activities detected is based on EMS event callhome.arw.activity.seen on the ONTAP side
  • When EMS event callhome.arw.activity.seen is generated, the event is notified to AIQUM due to the default event notification configuration on ONTAP

cluster1::*> event notification destination show -type rest-api
Name            Type        Destination
--------------  ----------  ---------------------
192-168-0-71_server
                rest-api    https://192.168.0.71:9443/acq/ontap/ems

  • After receiving the notification, AIQUM collects the details of the event from ONTAP via API, and generates AIQUM event Ransomware activities detected 

Additional Information

When are EMS/ASUP alert notifications being generated for 'callhome.arw.activity.seen'?

 

 

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